The sheer volume of amateur cellphone sex videos on the Internet’s porn site — while certainly culturally edifying — illustrates the new truth about sex in the 21st century: don’t let anyone record it, or everyone will be enjoying it.

But sometimes, the all-seeing and voyeuristic eye of consumer video culture has a happy ending: a businessman who recorded himself having sex with a university student was recently cleared of the charges after the footage was shown in court.

Before the footage was presented as evidence, the judge warned both the gallery and the jury: “You are going to see a clip which from what I have been told you may find extremely distasteful.”

Despite this warning, though, the defense failed to exhibit a scene from Dustin Diamond’s sex tape, but instead a rather traditional recording of an enthusiastic coupling.

After the tape had finished playing, the judge ruled in the favor of the defendant. “You and Mr Taylor were very familiar with each other and comfortable in each other’s presence.”

There’s the possibility, of course, that the judge made the wrong decision: there could have been drugs involved. But score one for the good guys. A lot is made, rightfully, of the eradication of privacy in the digital age, but when it can help a man avoid wrongful imprisonment and the total ruin of his life, there’s a bright side.

The moral? If you’re actively swinging, pony up for a cell phone with a good camera. And PornHub commenters say, the more megapixels, the better.

Reader Comments

krenshaw

good for him. he shoud sue her ass now for trying to mess up his life. coby should of record it on his phone too. zing

cageyness

Wait, I’m confused. Was the defendant being accused of rape for that particular instance of sex? Because it is completely possible to be raped by someone with whom you’ve had sex and/or are/were in a relationship with–the nature of the relationship doesn’t make all sexual encounters automatically consensual.

A Brit

True, cageyness.
We don’t know enough about the case details or how the accused rape event happened from their points of view. We can only go by the judges decision, in this case, it cleared a man of a rape charge. Something that can ruin a man’s life as we all can imagine.

OrcD3vil

While that is true about it can be rape if you have had sex with someone before I would imagine something that was in the video would be something that is in most of the “Home Sex Tapes” that are currently floating around on the net of “Come on baby give it to me” or “God I love *beep*” that would go to the contrary of what she is saying it was “Rape”. If your going to tape something make sure your the only one with the copy woman, men are very likely to post it and say “haha look what I’ve had before it was good but I want better” or if you make them made just to do it to slander you. Woman are most likely to not post it and be embarassed of it later.

Holly

You have to wonder if she even knew he was recording them together. I am hearing more and more of this being done without the consent of the other person. Isn’t that also illegal?

Shabash Morton

I believe recording someone (video, audio), without that person’s knowledge, is illegal in certain situations. In this case, the footage from the phone aided the defendant in disproving the rape charge. As was written by a previous poster, we do not have the full gist of the story. It would appear that the “phone” footage, along with the other evidence presented in the case, favored the defendant.